TY - GEN
T1 - SME Maturity, Requirement for Interoperability
AU - Benguria, Gorka
AU - Santos, Igor
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2008, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. All rights reserved.
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Nowadays and in the future, the capacity of being able to use the latest means of interaction has become a critical factor not only to increase earnings but also to stay in the market. The objective of this paper is to present a strategy for becoming and staying interoperable in SME (Small and Medium Enterprise) environments. SMEs used to be flexible, adaptable and innovative in their products, but they have difficulties to adopt ICT in disciplines not directly related with their products. This strategy relays in three pillars: an Improvement Cycle to guide the establishment and the maintenance of the interoperable status; An Interoperability Maturity Model as a repository of good practices for being interoperable; An Assessment Method to be able to measure the level of interoperability and being able to establish feasible goals.
AB - Nowadays and in the future, the capacity of being able to use the latest means of interaction has become a critical factor not only to increase earnings but also to stay in the market. The objective of this paper is to present a strategy for becoming and staying interoperable in SME (Small and Medium Enterprise) environments. SMEs used to be flexible, adaptable and innovative in their products, but they have difficulties to adopt ICT in disciplines not directly related with their products. This strategy relays in three pillars: an Improvement Cycle to guide the establishment and the maintenance of the interoperable status; An Interoperability Maturity Model as a repository of good practices for being interoperable; An Assessment Method to be able to measure the level of interoperability and being able to establish feasible goals.
KW - Business models for interoperable products and services
KW - Managing challenges and solutions of interoperablity
KW - Strategy and management aspects of interoperability
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85118453995
U2 - 10.1007/978-1-84800-221-0_3
DO - 10.1007/978-1-84800-221-0_3
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85118453995
SN - 9781848002203
T3 - Proceedings of the I-ESA Conferences
SP - 29
EP - 40
BT - Enterprise Interoperability III - New Challenges and Industrial Approaches
A2 - Mertins, Kai
A2 - Popplewell, Keith
A2 - Ruggaber, Rainer
A2 - Xu, Xiaofei
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 4th International Conference on Interoperability for Enterprise Systems and Applications, I-ESA 2008
Y2 - 26 March 2008 through 28 March 2008
ER -